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The document discusses the major ocean basins that drain water from land areas, listing the percentages of global land that drain to each ocean. It also briefly mentions the five largest river basins by area and three rivers that drain the most water.

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Ocean Basins

The document discusses the major ocean basins that drain water from land areas, listing the percentages of global land that drain to each ocean. It also briefly mentions the five largest river basins by area and three rivers that drain the most water.

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Ocean basins[edit]

The following is a list of the major ocean basins:

About 48.7% of the world's land drains to the Atlantic Ocean. In North
America, surface water drains to the Atlantic via the Saint Lawrence
River and Great Lakes basins, theEastern Seaboard of the United States,
the Canadian Maritimes, and most of Newfoundland and Labrador. Nearly all
of South America east of the Andes also drains to the Atlantic, as does most
of Western and Central Europe and the greatest portion of western SubSaharan Africa. The two major mediterranean seas of the world also flow to
the Atlantic:

The American Mediterranean Sea (the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of


Mexico) basin includes most of the U.S. interior between
the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains, a small part of the Canadian
provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, eastern Central America, the
islands of the Caribbean and the Gulf, and a small part of northern South
America.

The European Mediterranean Sea basin includes much of North


Africa, east-central Africa (through the Nile River), Southern, Central,
and Eastern Europe, Turkey, and the coastal areas of Israel, Lebanon,
and Syria.

The Arctic Ocean drains most of Western and Northern Canada east of
the Continental Divide, northern Alaska and parts of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Minnesota, andMontana in the United States, the north shore of
the Scandinavian peninsula in Europe, and much of central and northern
Russia, which totals to about 17% of the world's land.

Just over 13% of the land in the world drains to the Pacific Ocean. Its basin
includes much of China, southeastern Russia, Japan, the Korean Peninsula,
most of Indonesia and Malaysia, the Philippines, all of the Pacific Islands, the
northeast coast of Australia, and Canada and the United States west of the
Continental Divide (including most of Alaska), as well as western Central
America and South America west of the Andes.

The Indian Ocean's drainage basin also comprises about 13% of Earth's
land. It drains the eastern coast of Africa, the coasts of the Red Sea and
the Persian Gulf, the Indian subcontinent, Burma, and most of Australia.

The Southern Ocean drains Antarctica. Antarctica comprises


approximately eight percent of the Earth's land.

Largest river basins[edit]


See also: List of drainage basins by area
The five largest river basins (by area), from largest to smallest, are the basins of
the Amazon, the Ro de la Plata, the Congo, the Nile, and the Mississippi. The
three rivers that drain the most water, from most to least, are the
Amazon, Ganga, and Congo rivers.[6]

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